Line #110 Main/InsultTropes


1	Regardless of whether people are good, bad, or a bit of both, it's clear we love to insult in various ways, enough to make several tropes of them in fiction.
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3	Contrast TheseTropesLoveToBrag, AdmirationTropes, and ComplimentTropes.
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5	!!Tropes
6	[[index]]
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8	Related:
9	+ IndexOfShame
10	+ OhGreatASnarkIndex
11	+ StockJokes
12	+ TakeThatIndex
13	+ TheseTropesShouldWatchTheirLanguage
14	]
15	* AbominationAccusationAttack: Accusing somebody of being a person who does or will do something nasty, like rape or murder.
16	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Somebody begrudgingly finds a joke funny.
17	* AdoptionDiss: An insult that has to do with being adopted.
18	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When someone, genuinely or not claims to be a particular someone without appropriate ID, the other person snarks that they're a particular someone ''they'' know ''they're'' not.
19	* AppropriatedAppellation: A person takes their nickname from a [[AccidentalMisnaming mispronounciation of their name]] or a [[InSeriesNickname nickname someone already gave them]], often an insult.
20	* ArmedWithCanon: The writers of a work argue about who gets to do what with the canon.
21	* BackhandedApology: An "apology" that actually shifts the blame to the person being apologized to (for example, most apologies that start with "I'm sorry ''you''..." count as this).
22	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Making a comparison between a person and something, by saying that one is like the other but the other one ''is'' the other. (For example saying, "What's the difference between you and a flea? One's an annoying parasite and the other one's an insect!")
23	* BaldnessMockery: Making fun of someone for being bald or going bald.
24	* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Somebody overhears people trash-talking them in a public bathroom.
25	* BeatWithoutABut: Saying something bad about someone, leading people to expect you'll say "but..." and give them a compliment, but just stopping the sentence there.
26	* BetterByADifferentName: Insulting a work by claiming it's a [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks bad copy of an older work]] or that it is an inferior version of a newer work, with the format "X was better when it was called Y" or "Y is a much better version of X".
27	* BigStupidDoodooHead: Childish insults.
28	* BitingTheHandHumor: Jokes at the expense of people who made or helped make the work.
29	* BlowingARaspberry: Sticking your tongue out and blowing to make a rude noise.
30	* BoringInsult: Insulting a person by claiming that they are boring.
31	* BrutalHonesty: Telling the truth bluntly.
32	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A protagonist has an important day of their life that was important because of the antagonist in some way. The antagonist insults the protagonist by saying that for them, it was just an ordinary day.
33	* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Non-humans use a word for humans that is (intentionally or not) rude.
34	* CallingMeALogarithm: A character is called something positive or neutral but takes it as an insult because they don't know the word.
35	* CallingTheOldManOut: Someone tells off their parent or ParentalSubstitute.
36	* CarloadOfCoolKids: A group of people in a vehicle stops to insult someone.
37	* CatchphraseInsult: Somebody has an insult that they say all the time.
38	* ComebackTomorrow: A character is insulted, then thinks of a comeback and says it much later.
39	* CompetingProductPotshot: A commercial insults a competitor's product.
40	* ComplimentBackfire: Somebody tries to compliment another person, but the other person is offended.
41	* TheComputerShallTauntYou: A game insults and mocks the player, usually for making a mistake.
42	* CondescendingCompassion: A character claims to feel sorry for somebody else for being inferior to them.
43	* CopycatMockery: Insulting someone by mimicking them.
44	* CoughSnarkCough: Coughing or pretending to cough to hide (or even give the implication of hiding without having any real intention to hide) a rude phrase.
45	* CountryMatters: The word "cunt" and how offensive it is in different countries.
46	* CowardiceCallout: Someone gets called out on their cowardly behavior/conduct.
47	* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Someone writes a story making fun of the character's job, which is also the writer's job.
48	* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: A writer insults something by having a [[TheDitz stupid character]] or a villain like it.
49	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Somebody dislikes something, but wants to compliment it to be polite or insult it in a creative way, so they only praise a minor aspect.
50	* DearNegativeReader: A writer insults a reader/viewer, usually for complaining about the work or something related.
51	* DefacementInsult: Someone writes an insult or warning on somebody else's property.
52	* DefiantToTheEnd: Insulting a character who's trying to kill the one doing the insulting.
53	* DehumanizingInsult: Insulting somebody by implying they're "less" than human.
54	* DestroyTheProductPlacement: [[ProductPlacement Something from a real-world brand]] is broken or destroyed.
55	* DidYouActuallyBelieve: A villain implies that a hero was naive for believing they'd do something.
56	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Taunting a much more powerful being.
57	* TheDissTrack: Insulting someone in song.
58	* ExcrementStatement: Showing contempt by deliberately urinating or defecating on someone or something.
59	* EyelidPullTaunt: Pulling one lower eyelid down, sticking out the tongue, and exclaiming (the exact exclamation depends on what language you're speaking) to be rude.
60	* FantasticSlurs: Fantasy or sci-fi insults.
61	* FingerWag: Wagging a finger to say, "No".
62	* FisticuffProvokingComment: Bob argues with Alice and says something insulting. Alice reacts by punching Bob.
63	* FlameWar: A heated argument online.
64	* FlippingTheBird: Sticking out the middle finger in order to insult.
65	* FloweryInsults: Very elaborate insults.
66	* FoodShoveGag: Shoving a piece into someone's mouth to keep them quiet or show disrespect.
67	* FriendlessnessInsult: An insult directed at someone's lack of friends or loved ones.
68	* GenderedInsult: An insult that has to do with gender.
69	* GentlemanSnarker: Someone who is snarky and highbrow.
70	* HaHaHaNo: Someone pretends to laugh with another person, but then says, "No", "Shut up" or similar.
71	* HandPuppetMockery: Making fun of another person's looks/personality through puppetry.
72	* HardOnSoftScience: The writer talks trash about "soft" sciences.
73	* TheHeckler: Someone who interrupts a performance to insult it.
74	* HeightInsult: Insults directed at someone's height.
75	* HistoricalLongevityJoke: Making fun of someone's age (or accidentally coming off as though you were due to naivete) by implying they were around during a historical moment.
76	* IBangedYourMom: You get under someone's skin by claiming to have had sex with their mother.
77	* IShallTauntYou: Insulting someone as part of an agenda.
78	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Someone insults another person for multiple things, but the person being insulted is only offended by (or is the most offended by) the last and/or weakest one.
79	* IWillShowYouX: Someone says something along the lines of "I'll show you some X!" as a response to an insult.
80	* IfIWantedXIWouldY: Somebody insults a thing by saying that if they wanted something to do with it, they'd do something else specific that has that aspect.
81	* IfYouTauntHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Insulting a bully/villain/whatever turns a person mean.
82	* ImStandingRightHere: Talking smack about someone without noticing or caring that they're around to hear your insults.
83	* ImmaturityInsult: A character insults someone by calling them a child or treating them like a child.
84	* InspirationalInsult: A character insults another character to motivate them, or they just do it to be mean but it motivates the person anyway.
85	* InsultedAwake: Snapping someone out of mind control, depression, [[AmnesiaEpisode amnesia]], or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a bad mood]] by insulting them.
86	* InsultBackfire: Someone insults another person, but that person takes it as a compliment.
87	* InsultComic: A comedian whose jokes are insulting people's flaws.
88	* InsultFriendlyFire: A person insults another about something that also applies to a third character they did not intend to insult.
89	* InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: A character insults another in a language they don't understand.
90	* InsultMisfire: A person is insulted, but thinks that it's another person being insulted.
91	* InsultOfEndearment: An insult gradually evolves into an AffectionateNickname.
92	* InsultToRocks: A line that goes something like, "I'd call you an X but that's just mean to [=Xs=]."
93	* IrrevocableMessage: A character sends a rude message, but then feels bad and wants to take it back.
94	* KnockingTheKnockoff: A character derides a copy of themselves from a different work.
95	* LameComeback: A reply to an insult that's not really a comeback as such.
96	* LazinessCallout: A character is called out for their laziness.
97	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Insulting someone's character by insulting their sexual prowess.
98	* MaliciousMisnaming: Being mean to somebody by calling them a derogatory variation of their name.
99	* MagicalProfanityFilter: A magic spell or other in-universe effect that prevents characters from swearing.
100	* MedalOfDishonor: An award that the person being awarded doesn't want, because it's lame or the award itself is ugly.
101	* MediationBackfire: Somebody tries to break up an argument and succeeds, but because the arguers want to insult the person trying to break it up.
102	* MinorInsultMeltdown: Someone only means to insult another person a little bit, but the one being insulted gets ''very'' offended.
103	* MockingTheMourner: Antagonizing someone using the fact that they have lost a loved one.
104	* MockingSingSong: Teasing someone by singing the thing being teased about, usually to the tune of "Ring Around the Roses".
105	* MoneySlap: Throwing money into someone else's face is disrespectful.
106	* {{Mooning}}: Insulting somebody by showing them your butt.
107	* MoreInsultingThanIntended: An insult hurts far worse than the insulter knows.
108	* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Dissing one's own culture or place of origin.
109	* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: Children arguing about whose father/brother/etc. is better.
110	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Insulting someone by leaving them out of a group (e.g. "These are my friends and this is Alice.")
111	* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: Calling someone incompetent by saying, "My grandma/sister/etc. can do it better than you!"
112	* NetworkSideswipe: A show disses another show that's on the same network.
113	* NobodyCallsMeChicken: A character gets mad at being called a coward.
114	* NoYou: Calling somebody something he just said (e.g., "It's an AmbiguousSituation." "You're an ambiguous situation!").
115	* OffendingAForeignCountry: Insulting an entire nation by complaining about a single element of its culture.
116	* OffendingTheFool: Calling out the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
117	* OhWait: A character says something hypothetical, then snidely adds something like, "Oh wait, it's true!"
118	* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Somebody hates someone else but does have one minor thing they don't hate about them and uses this to insult them.
119	* OutsideInsideSlur: Somebody insults somebody else by saying, "On the outside, you're X, but on the inside, you're Y", implying that the person being insulted thinks or acts more like a Y than an X.
120	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Somebody calls another person something like "the best X ever" when that group is ridiculously small so the compliment doesn't have much merit.
121	* ParentheticalSwearing: Conveying an insult through tone and delivery.
122	* PitifulWorms: Insulting someone by comparing them to a bug.
123	* PolicePig: "Pig" is a very common insult for police officers. Sometimes taken a step further by [[VisualPun portraying cops as literal pigs]].
124	* PracticalTaunt: A video game has an option to taunt a character you're attacking.
125	* PretenderDiss: People who belong in a certain category insulting people who pretend to be in that category.
126	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A long, ranty insult.
127	* RelativeRidicule: Insulting someone's family, or who they are related to.
128	* RidiculousCounterRequest: A DeadpanSnarker calls someone's demand unreasonable by making an absurd or fantastic demand of their own.
129	* RightBehindMe: Insulting someone before realizing that they were standing right behind you the whole time.
130	* SelfDeprecation: Insulting oneself as a joke.
131	* ServileSnarker: A servant isn't above making remarks at the expense of their boss.
132	* SexinessScore: Ranking, rating or scoring a character's attractiveness and sexual desirability.
133	* ShakingTheRump: Wiggling one's butt (not necessarily an insult, but it can be).
134	* SlutShaming: Insulting a person for being very promiscuous.
135	* SnarkingThanks: Thanking someone in a sarcastic or insulting manner.
136	* SnubByOmission: Insulting someone by complimenting everyone except that person.
137	* SonOfAnApe: A nonhuman insults a human by calling them an ape or a monkey.
138	* SpitefulSpit: Spitting to be rude.
139	* SpitefulWill: A dead person manages to get back at their hated peers from beyond the grave by arranging it so that the reading of their will allows them to posthumously insult the people they so despised.
140	* StealthInsult: A character insults another character but intends for them not to understand.
141	* StereotypeReactionGag: A character is offended at another character assuming they have a stereotypical skill/interest, which they actually do have.
142	* StinkSnub: Insulting someone by saying that they smell unpleasant.
143	* StopBeingStereotypical: A member of a group insults another member for having traits [[{{Stereotype}} stereotypically]] associated with the group.
144	* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: Calling something the stupidest or most ridiculous thing you've seen/heard.
145	* SuccessThroughSexAccusation: A person's success is attributed to sex rather than merit.
146	* TakeThat: A work makes fun of another work.
147	* TakeThatAudience: A work makes fun of its audience.
148	* TakeThatCritics: A work takes a jab at its critics.
149	* TakeThatKiss: Kissing or pretending to kiss someone to mock them.
150	* TakeThatScrappy: An [[TheScrappy unpopular character]] suffers.
151	* TakeThatTitForTat: When a work insults another work, then the second work insults back.
152	* TauntingTheTransformed: A character reacts to the sight of a transformation with mockery, usually verbal.
153	* TauntingTheUnconscious: Making fun of someone who's comatose, unconscious, or in a similar state.
154	* ThatLiarLies: Reprimanding someone for being or accusing them of being a liar.
155	* ThisLoserIsYou: An [[ButtMonkey unlucky]] character is meant to be [[AudienceSurrogate like the audience]].
156	* TrashTalk: Insulting an opponent during a fight or a competitive game.
157	* TongueOutInsult: Someone sticks out their tongue as a means of insult.
158	* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: The winner of a competition celebrates by mocking the other competitors for losing.
159	* VerbThis: Replying rudely to someone's comment by saying, "[Verb that the person previously said in a sentence] ''this''!"
160	* VerbalSaltInTheWound: Deliberately offending someone by bringing up a past injury - often one you inflicted.
161	* VirginShaming: Insulting someone just because they never had sexual intercourse before.
162	* VolleyingInsults: One character insults another, the second one insults them back, the first one insults them back, and so on.
163	* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Mocking something someone likes by suggesting they should marry it.
164	* WitchWithACapitalB: Calling a woman a witch as an insult.
165	* WorldsShortestBook: The idea that if a book was written about a certain aspect of the character, the book would be very short as the character has none or only a small amount of the attribute.
166	* WorldsSmallestViolin: Rubbing one's fingers together as though playing a tiny violin to imply that a person is [[{{Wangst}} exaggerating their problems]].
167	* WouldRatherSuffer: Claiming that one would rather do something extremely unpleasant than the thing they're dissing.
168	* WriterRevolt: Writers respond to ExecutiveMeddling by sneaking in an insult towards the conditions forced on them.
169	* WritersSuck: TV shows and films make fun of writers.
170	* WrongInsultOffence: Somebody thinks that they were insulted incorrectly (for example, "I'm not stupid, I'm clueless!").
171	* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: Saying that a time period "called and wants something back" to imply that the thing is outdated.
172	* YearsTooEarly: A Japanese insult, calling someone naive by saying that they're "X years too early" to fight the insulter.
173	* YouAreFat: Insulting somebody by calling them fat.
174	* YouFightLikeACow: People exchange insults during a fight.
175	* YouFool: The word "fool" is a common insult in fiction.
176	* YouRebelScum: A villain in authority insults a lower-ranking hero.
177	* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: Insulting someone by saying, "Your little X".
178	* YourMom: Insulting someone by trash-talking their mom.
179	* YourVampiresSuck: Vampires diss fictional vampires.
180	* YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum: Taunting someone by telling them they'd be worthless without X.
181	[[/index]]

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